@ BestGlideSpeed
Note that that definition is preceded by, at the start of the section:
As used in Subchapters A through K of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
In other words, the words in the FARs mean whatever you want them to mean.
On a general note, some of the FARs are very badly written, and there are inconsistencies between them even when they make sense individually; you simply can't make a logical textual analysis, such as deriving from that "i.e." that it doesn't apply to anything else.
@ Feather #3
Wonder if he'd have passed today?